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# golconda

«golconda» in Mova's school dictionary: **an old fort and city ruin near Hyderabad in India, once…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a golconda — old, rare); proper noun (Golconda)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (a name) Golconda is an old fort and city ruin near Hyderabad in India, once famous for its diamond mines and diamond trade. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/golconda/#m1)

2) (old, literary) A golconda is a source of great wealth, like a very rich mine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/golconda/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In history lessons Golconda is famous because some of the world's best-known diamonds, such as the Koh-i-Noor and the Hope Diamond, are believed to come from its mines. In old books, calling something «a golconda» means it is a treasure chest of riches. It is also the name of a famous painting by René Magritte with men in bowler hats falling like rain.

### examples

- Golconda Fort stands on a hill near Hyderabad in India. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/golconda/#x1)
- The diamonds of Golconda were famous all over the world. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/golconda/#x2)
- The Koh-i-Noor diamond is believed to come from the Golconda mines. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/golconda/#x3)
- (old) To the explorers, the gold field was a real golconda. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/golconda/#x4)
- Magritte's painting Golconda shows men in bowler hats floating in the sky. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/golconda/#x5)

### note

As a place name it has a capital G. The common-noun sense («a golconda») is old-fashioned and very rare today; «a gold mine» is the everyday phrase.

### In the corpora

- [Until the 1700s almost all the world's diamonds came from India, from the Golconda region.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/51-gemstones-and-precious-metals/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «golconda» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/golconda/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.